#gardening

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. ↗

— May Sarton

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The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#always #better #flowers #food #happier

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ↗

— George Eliot

#more #must #never #plant #rain

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#better #garden #lot #neglected #tended

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning? ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

#accomplish #beginning #enough #far #garden

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness. ↗

— Christopher Lloyd

#gardening #inspiration #inspirational

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#down #garden #life #like #little

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#apart #breeding #improved #knowledge #love